
the air remains is altered, When, on the other hand, after the pulmonary vessels have been injected, the artery with one colour and the veins with another, and when the lungs have afterwards been kept in a moist state, it will be impossible for any one, who examines them, either by the naked eye, or by the microscope, to fail to observe that the structure of the air-tubes is as distinct and different from that of the true pulmonary or parenchymatic tissue, as it is possible for any two structures to be. Whenever the smallest fragment of such an injected lung is examined by the micros= =cope, any person, however uninstructed, would be able at once to descriminate which was Bronchial tube and which pulmonary <s>[text?]<\s> tissue - But the case is quite different, if a portion of dried lung be examined; the pulmonary tissue will then have become shri<s>v<\s>= =velled up and agglutinated together, so that the whole structure will appear as if it consisted of nothing else but minute bronchial tubes, in consequence of its spongy texture being
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- Author
- James Newton Heale
- Reference
- AP/43/4
- Series
- AP
- Date
- 1860
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Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs, 1860. From The Royal Society, AP/43/4
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